NAB 2017 Archive

One of the highlights of this year’s NAB 2017 announcements, at least for me personally, as I hope for many of you, was the 5-inch SmallHD Focus daylight viewable touchscreen for mirrorless and compact cameras. Bringing touchscreen functionality to the very desirable 5-inch compact form factor, SmallHD

At NAB 2017, budget gear maker iFootage showed off their latest Shark Mini slider, which loses the belt, but adds a new motorized fluid head. Camera sliders come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and price brackets, but when it comes to something that is smooth, made of

At this year’s NAB Show in Vegas, Ikan introduced its newest addition to their on camera LED lights lineup – the ikan Onyx. With the Onyx, ikan are aiming to provide professional photographers, videographers, and cinematographers with high quality LED lighting at an affordable price. The Onyx lights are also

Zacuto showed off a few new products they have been working on lately at the show floor at NAB 2017 in Las Vegas, one of them being their prototype Panasonic GH5 cage, and also their new Zacuto Control Grips. These new accessories have been designed as the

Sony didn’t really announce any new cameras at NAB 2017; and while this may come as a shock to some, the Japanese electronics giant wasn’t short of updates for existing product lines and also focused heavily on updates in the area of IP Live and HDR productions

NAB 2017 may be over, but there’s more exciting new gear that may very well be of interest to a lot of you out there. Lens manufacturers (and other camera accessories makers) are paying close attention to the rising popularity of Sony APS-C and full-frame mirrorless cameras

It was just a matter of time before we officially saw a pistol grip brushless gimbal that provides a direct view of the camera display mounted on board. Generally considered as one of the major and most annoying drawbacks of the devices in this specific gimbal segment, the virtually

New entrant Atlas Lens Co, just announced their brand new Orion 2x Anamorphic lenses at NAB 2017. At the show users can visit the Tiffen booth (C 6019) and demo their first 65mm T2 Orion Series 2x Anamorphic lens. The lens making game, especially the Anamorphic one

All in all, we haven’t seen many new cameras at NAB 2017, but in return, there were plenty of other fantastic filmmaking tools and accessories worth noting. At this year’s trade show in Las Vegas, for instance, established audio gear maker Sennheiser showcases the first-ever waterproof GoPro Mic

The latest Software Update Package (SUP) 5.0 brings some essential refinements to the existing Multicam Mode on the beloved ARRI AMIRA. The feature has proven over time to be an extremely useful option for a myriad of live broadcasts, music events, and other fast-paced, multi-camera productions across the world. In

Well-known camera accessories manufacturer Wooden Camera, just announced their UFF-1 Universal Follow Focus at NAB 2017. According to Wooden Camera this is the first follow focus to be compatible with 15mm LW, 15mm Studio, and 19mm rods without the use of adapters thus bringing a new meaning to

To say that the new Panasonic GH5 has been popular in the pro and enthusiast video making world is a bit of an understatement. For all I know, the little, but powerful Panasonic GH5, which I own and love, is one of the most talked about cameras

Not that long ago AMD made a huge splash in the industry with the release of its budget-oriented, yet extremely efficient multi-core Ryzen AM4 processor that manages to stack up against some of the top-tier Intel processors costing three times more while delivering the same (if not

Earlier in the week at NAB 2017 in Las Vegas, Sigma announced two new cine prime lens additions to their highly anticipated cine primes lineup. The latest two Sigma’s to join the cine prime family are the Sigma Cine FF High Speed 14mm T2 and the Sigma Cine FF

FilmPower, the makers of the now classic Nebula 4000 Lite pistol grip gimbal stabiliser are demoing their latest Nebula 5100 3-axis gimbal at NAB 2017. We wrote about the new FilmPower Nebula 5100 gimbal a few weeks back here, but just as a reminder for those, who’ve

Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of Blackmagic Video Assist 2.4 update which adds support for multi-lingual support for 10 separate languages. This means customers can now use Video Assist in their native language. This update is available now as a free update for all Blackmagic Video

ARRI have been pretty busy this NAB announcing a new ARRI Alexa SXT Wireless camera and now also updating their industry leading LED – the ARRI Skypanel with Firmware Update 3.0. The latest firmware brings significant new and advanced features to an already versatile LED light. ARRI have

Seagate and DJI have joined forces to create a portable drive specifically tailored towards needs of aerial videographers who want to efficiently back up their aerial footage on location. The brand new Fly Drive offers large storage capacity of 2TB, integrated MicroSD card slot, quick transfer speeds,

AVID, the company well known for revolutionising the non-linear editing workflow for big Hollywood productions, announced at NAB 2017 the upcoming availability of Avid Media Composer First, a free version of the industry-standard video editing system. Media Composer First is a brand new, fully featured video editing solution that

Companies like Sony, Samsung and Panasonic have been at the forefront of HDR technology development for quite some time now. At NAB 2017 Dell has also joined the party with its first HDR10-compliant monitor. With its 10-bit UHD display, a peak brightness of 1,000 nits and HDR